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From: Pamela Mertz, NY, USA
Date: 03 Oct 2008
Time: 14:16:07 -0500
Remote Name: 163.153.6.145
Thank you for this paper, and sharing your ideas about narrowing the gap for Turkish PWS. It is really exciting to learn that world wide efforts are in place to offer help and raise awareness. I have been a PWS since age 5, but didn't join self help until my 40's, so I definitley appreciate the feelings of empowerment and community one derives from knowing that we are not alone. One question: with so little therapeutic help for PWS, how are PWS perceived by the non-stuttering public? Are PWS shunned, mocked, etc? Even with all of the reources available here in the US, I still find large numbers of people unaware of what stuttering, and whose first reaction is to laugh or think less of us. Keep up the great work!